Blog Posts for William Poy Lee

Dead or Alive - Showing Up for Friends

William Poy Lee — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:14:58 -0500

A few weeks ago, I had RSVP'ed to attend the 25th anniversary party of Mustard's Grill, that culinary lodestar that placed Napa on the map not only as a wind destination but a gourmet valley.

IN MEMORIAM -- GEORGE CARLIN, AND YET HE'LL LIVE FOREVER

William Poy Lee — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:19:40 -0500

For those of us who love Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Chris Rock, and all other comedian warriors who loved all words and tolerated no hypocrisy, please honor the passing of George Carlin

Kindle-ized, Globalized, Public Intellectualized, and Excised

William Poy Lee — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:38:18 -0500

I'm being Kindle-ized by Amazon.com., so my agent recently informed me.

To Bee or not to Bee...

William Poy Lee — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:47:54 -0500

What a hoot -- journalist Linnea Due pits me, an empircal habitat gardner, in a smack-down against the contra but politic recommendations of a UC Berkeley entomologist, Professor Gordon Frankie, wh

Deep East and Amiri Baraka's Operatic version of The Myth of Sisyphus

William Poy Lee — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:38:16 -0500

Last weekend, I saw the world premiere of Amiri Baraka’s Jazz Opera, The Sisyphus Syndrome. I read his groundbreaking

BORDERLINE

William Poy Lee — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:22:36 -0500

A pleasing afternoon at the Annie Leibovitz Retroseptive yesterday, Tuesday: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005, at S.F.'s Palace of the Legion of Honor.

Dove Bodies in Motion and Asian Americans too

William Poy Lee — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:22:21 -0500

One nicety of living so close to the UC Berkeley campus is the ease of dropping in on lectures, international performances, rarely screened movies at Pacific Film Archives, openings at the Berkeley

Aftermath

William Poy Lee — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:52:34 -0500

Today, the winds are inexplicably blowing down from the Eastern Hills. The leaves are all streaming the wrong way, slightly creaking as if in protest. But spring is bursting out all over.

Middle Age Torch Runners, Free Speech Initiation. and a Switcheroo

William Poy Lee — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:11:47 -0500

So no sooner than I return to SF than I discover a friend of mine, Helen Zia, writer and lifelong civil and human rights activist, decided to run the O torch for 2 blocks through San Francisco. S

Cash Prizes, Scent of the Missing, Toisan Sounds, and Papadeaux's

William Poy Lee — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:55:04 -0500

The Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas is a swell place, i.e., swell as in swanky because it is an old Grand Dame hotel, but so well maintained, it doesn't feel in the slightest dowdy, and seems, we